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have a feeling i know the answer but i'll ask anyway,
i've been considering doing some indoor climbing for a while, injuries and covid have delayed this. i spent an hour on the climbing walls at centreparks with the nephews and forgot how much i enjoyed it.
anyway adidas / five ten seem to have some real knockdown prices.
i'm happy to order a few pairs as its free return..
fitwise, how should they be?
i've read slightly loose for tougher canvas , non stretch leather,
any advice i'm a complete novice..
i know the advise will be go and try them on, but if climbing shops are like LBS then they wont have the size
all below prices are before 25% APP25 code
dragon lace or hook/loop fastening, £65 rrp £130
quantum £70
grandstone £75
asym £50
anasazi lv pro £65
They are good prices.
You should be looking for something fairly unaggressive, and probably at or very slightly below your street shoe size. They should be snug rather than tight, you need them to be comfortable.
Some of the ones you've listed are quite technical, and probably overkill for novice wall use. I'd go for the Asym, or Gambit if they've got them.
Get velcro fastening, it makes it easier to adjust the tightness as you go.
The only ones appropriate from that list are Asym, with the Anasazi LVs as a possible but they have quite an aggressive heel.
5.10 fit quite snugly (and can be variable!) - I'm a UK 10 and have some anasazi lace-ups in an 11 that are fine for longer routes. 9.5 in lace ups and velcro are pretty snug - ideal at the wall / short routes but I'd not go any smaller than that (leading 7a / E2 as a guide).
those grandstone's are like something from the 1980s. Do they take stepins?
agree that the asyms look best (or the gym shoes)
unlined leather upper that help dial in a comfortable
they will stretch more than the other shoes, but still don't gettem too small
I get size 9s in Boreal and Red Chilli. I have size 10 feet.
Might buy some too 🙂
i know the advise will be go and try them on
Correct.
Climbing shoes are a purchase for which there's no substitute for a bricks & mortar shop. The last time I bought a pair I went in with a very clear idea of what I wanted, tried on pretty much every pair of shoes in the shop and came out with something entirely different from what I thought I wanted. You'll pay more than online but you're paying for the time and advice of an assistant who knows what they're talking about. (You could go to a shop then leave and buy online, but that's a git's trick.)
It's impossible to recommend an individual shoe as we don't know what your feet are like. They should fit snugly, not move about and not have any pressure points.
At some point you will receive the advice that if they're not painful, they're too big. What you need to do here is hit them with a brick and ignore anything further that they have to say.
5 minutes Cougar, you're getting slow.
I knew you'd be on soon with your hardline "shoot anyone who tells you to buy shoes any smaller than your house" spiel.
(PS, I agree with you)
(to a point)
I bought some Scarpa for a reasonable price from Decathlon before the world fell apart. I tried on a few pairs and didn't get any personal advice but I did seek knowledge from other climbers beforehand so I knew roughly what I was looking for. I'm a total novice and these seem to be fine for me on the few occasions I got to use them.
all below prices are before 25% APP25 code
Can anyone confirm they have got this code to work. Tried to buy a couple of pairs of Asyms, but getting a code not recognized error.
(PS, I agree with you)
(to a point)
Your "to a point" bit being outside the remit of the question. Advice given to a beginner is different from advice one would give to an experienced climber.
I have a pair of Anasazis I refer to as my "instruments of torture," I sized them naively anticipating stretch which never happened. They're an amazing shoe that turn me into Spider-man, but if they'd been the first shoe I'd ever bought I'd have quit climbing after my second trip. Even now I only break them out if I think I'm going to need them and given how out of practice I am that's likely to be "never" for the foreseeable.
Obviously this doesn't equate to "buy clown shoes."
Started climbing a bit before lockdown, tried on all the shoes at Go Outdoors (handily opposite the climbing wall!), ended up with Boreal Joker Plus (which they had at a nice discount) in 9.5 (normally 9.5 or 10 in street shoes). After climbing in them a bit, I probably could've gotten away with a 9, but then they are comfy to wear for an entire 2+ hour sesh whereas I see plenty of people who have to loosen or even take their shoes off after every climb!
To be honest all the shoes I tried on in my street size seemed to fit ok (didn't bother with any of the mega-technical shoes), unless you're desperate to get a super snug fit (probably inadvisable for a beginner anyway) I'd be more than happy to take a punt at buying something online if they offered free returns.
Definitely don't go for something mega pointy/curved as a beginner IMO, no point as your basic technique is probably going to be the limiting factor.
The code works if you order through the adidas app
Adidas app, well I never.
thanks
thanks all for the advise..
you must use the app, to use the code,
otherwise go on vouchercodes and get the 25%/30% code to use, as a cheeky side note, vouchercodes will give you a £20 voucher (i got a tesco) if the code doesnt work..
the 30% advertised code i used last week only gave a 25% discount, so i sent them an email 24 hours later i got a tesco £20 voucher emailed to me..
T&Cs
you must have a vouchercodes account/email.
only one claim per month.
just send them an email with screen shot of you order including address / price paid and discount code used etc
simple.
The sizing of five-ten changed a bit when the got taken over by Adidas. Previously they came out about half a size too small. I am 8 street shoe and 7.5 in the old five ten. I believe they now run true to size. There is a size calculator on the banana fingers website.
I would say the Anasazi is a good beginners shoe either in the lace or the Velcro. they are synthetic so don't expect the to change in size much. There is a school of though (Dave Macleod) that beginners should get good shoes from the start so that they instill good habits.
In any case, fit is the most important thing. They should be tight enough over the toes that you can not pinch a roll of material between forefinger and thumb. Try to avoid dead spots. You should want to take them off after 10 minutes much more than that and they are probably too big. Lace-ups give more adjustment and easier to get a more precise fit with.
On the banana fingers website there is a really good shoe size calculator for each type of climbing shoe. If you can get to Bristol when possible they will fit you to a perfect type of climbing shoe. No I’m not on commission, my daughter bought shoes from go outdoors and ended up too big. She’s wearing la sportiva solutions that her feet have changed shape to fit. She has a pair of 5 ten anaztazi pro she has found a little baggy.
Rik is your man from on here he workes in that sector
It's Adidas so generally (it works for me anyway) you can order a ton of HALF sizes for free using a stock inventory that seems pretty reliable, and post what you don't want back to them for free using a returns process that is a doddle.